INDEX 



Abyssinia, home of coffee-plant, 



84 



Acacia, 229, 270 



Academy of Fine Arts, Rio de 

 Janeiro, 68 



Academy of Science, La Plata, 255, 

 257: St. Petersburg, 14 



Accident to Diplodocus, St. Pe- 

 tersburg, 250; on railway, 313 



Aconcagua, 130, 291 



Africans in Brazil, 46; in Uruguay, 



94 

 Agassiz, Louis, 325 



"Age of reptiles," 5 

 AgelfBus thilius, 173 

 Ageronia, the clicking noise made 



by, 73 

 A grids, 293 

 Agricultural resources of South 



America, 354 

 Alcaeus paraphrased by Sir William 



Jones, 146 



Alcorta, Dr. Jos6 Figueroa, 123 

 Alfalfa, 145, 155, 238 

 Alfonso VI., 358 

 Alkaline soil, 132 

 Alligator, 48 

 Almohades, the, 358 

 Alpha Centauri, 33, 34 

 Alvarez, Diego, first settler of 



Brazil, 54, 81 

 Alvarez, Senor Don Agustin, 123, 



124, 295 



Alvarez, Senor Don Luis A., 213 

 Amazon, mouth of, 320 

 Amblyrhamphus holoseriteus, 173 

 Ameghino, Carlos, 207, 208, 220 

 Ameghino, Senor Florentine, 207, 



208, 214, 215, 218, 244, 246 

 americana, Rhea, 148 

 Ampullaria canaliculata 



D'Orbigny, 232 



A nartia jatropha, amalthea, 327 



Anchor of Columbus, 323 



Andes, 130-132, 278, 290 



Animals, migration of, from dif- 

 ferent continents, 206 



Anona muricata, reticulate, squa- 

 mosa, 339 



Antarctica connected with Aus- 

 tralia, South America, and 

 Africa, 205 



Anthurium, 327 



Antilles, the Lesser, 334-351 



Ant-nests, 284, 304 



Antonio, 274, 277 



Ants, 74,235,284,308 



Apostrophe to Rio de Janeiro, 57 



Apple-trees, 182 



Aqueduct, built by Jesuits, Rio 

 de Janeiro, 61, 71 



Arabs, 358, 359 



Arauearia, 227; excelsa, 228; im- 

 bricata, 228 



Arch of Titus, 25 



Archean rocks, 3, 4 



Arctomys, 195 



Argentina, I, 15, 16, 100-107,128- 

 146. 355: arid lands, 132-133; 

 blue sky of, 147; colonization, 

 136, 138; composite population, 

 121, 142, 359: compulsory edu- 

 cation, 140: cost of living in. 

 144: country of beef and wheat, 

 107; dimensions, 128; dry- 

 farming in, 133; English in, 142, 

 299; flora, 155; food-supplies, 

 189, ^54; French in, 142; fuel, 

 107; importation of cattle into, 

 145; Irish in, 142; lake region, 

 115, 131; new railroads, 135; 

 President, 254; price of labor, 

 145; price of land, 144; protec- 

 tive tariff, 144; republicanism 

 140; Russians in, 142; Scotch 

 in, 142; soil, 238; sugar industry, 



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